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Dimos Dikoudis was born in Larisa on June 24,1977.His parents led him to the athletics from an early age.He also has a younger sister.In the age of ten he started playing soccer and later he was involved in TaeKwonDo.After two years of martial art he started playing basketball in his school team.With his school won the city championship,which was his first title and right after that he joined his first club,Perseas.He played there until 18 and won four city and state championships with his club and a national title as a member of the all state team.In 1995 he signed his first contract with Olympia.He played there for three seasons,one at the second division of Greece and two at the A2 division.He was the MVP and leading rebounder in A2 both seasons.He was also a member of the National team under twenty two.In 1998 he signed a contract with AEK Athens and played there for five seasons.As a member of AEK he won the Saporta cup,the Greek championship and two Greek cups.He was voted rookie of the year for the 1999-00 season and MVP for the 2001-02 season.In 2003 he desided to leave Greece and he signed with Pamesa Valencia of Spain.He played there for a year and after he moved to CSKA Moscow.With CSKA he won the Russian championship and the cup-first in the history of the club- and he played at the final four of Euroleague which was held at Moscow. The season 2005-06 Dimos will play at Valencia. With Valencia the 2005/06 season Dimos reached at the final of Copa del Rey where they lost to Tau Ceramica.
After three years of playing away in Europe,Dimos accepted the offer of Greek champion Panathinaikos Athens and returned to Greece signing a two year contract. As a player of Panathinaikos he conquered the triple crown (greek championship and Cup, Euroleague) in 2007. Meanwhile, he won the double in 2008, adding two more title in his biography. Dikoudis has also participated in six all star games, in Athens, Patra, Drama, Chalkida, Lamia and this year in Amaliada.
National team
Dimos won the European championship at 25th of September 2005 with the Greek National team.He made his debut at the Greek National team on November 24,1999 against Esthonia.As a member of the National team he played at the European championships of Turkey(2001) and Sweden(2003) and the Olympic games of Athens(2004). At the world championship in Japan in august 2006 he won the silver medal after losing to Spain in the final.On the way to the final they beat the U.S. team in the semifinal as one of the Greece's top moments in sports history. In European championship of Spain (2007), he conquered the fourth position with greek national team, after the defeat from Lithuania.
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